Harvard Is Sixteenth Largest U. S. College

Harvard is the 16th largest university in the nation on the basis of full-time enrollment, a recent statistical study by Raymond Walters, president of the University of Cincinnati, has disclosed. Enrollment here is listed at 9,916, as compared to first-place California's 34,883.

Walters' survey also revealed that full-time enrollments the nation over were down by 11.4 percent because of the draft and war industries. The drop at Harvard has been noticeable, but only slight, according to the Registrar's Office here.

"Most calamitous" of all for the nation, Walters contends, is the sizeable drop in men and women taking education courses. The lack of engineers also has remained an important problem.

The first ten largest universities in full-time enrollment are: California, Minnesota, Illinois, University of Michigan, New York University, Ohio State University, Wisconsin, Columbia, Michigan State College, and Indiana. In grand-total enrollment, the five largest are: N.Y.U., California, C.C.N.Y., Columbia, and Boston University.